Logging the Longleaf Yellow Pine Forests of West Florida

The Historical Society of Bay County will host a lecture entitled "Logging the Longleaf Yellow Pine Forests of West Florida"; by Dr. Brian Rucker. Logging was a main industry in the Panhandle 100 or more years ago. Dr. Rucker will also display some of the early logging tools. Dr. Brian R. Rucker is a seventh generation native of Santa Rosa County and has his Ph.D. in history from Florida State University. He is a full professor of history at Pensacola State College, and the first recipient of the Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Wentworth, Jr. Endowed Chair of History at the college and takes students on field trips across the panhandle. His specialty is history of the Pensacola area, the Florida panhandle, and the Gulf Coast. He has authored or edited over eighty scholarly books and articles related mostly to the Gulf Coast area, and he has twice been president of the Gulf South Historical Association.